• GissaMittJobb@lemmy.ml
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    3 hours ago

    LLMs are fundamentally unsuitable for character counting on account of how they ‘see’ the world - as a sequence of tokens, which can split words in non-intuitive ways.

    Regular programs already excel at counting characters in words, and LLMs can be used to generate such programs with ease.

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        2 hours ago

        This is true. They do not think, because they are next token predictors, not brains.

        Having this in mind, you can still harness a few usable properties from them. Nothing like the kind of hype the techbros and VCs imagine, but a few moderately beneficial use-cases exist.

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          Without a doubt. But PhD level thinking requires a kind of introspection that LLMs (currently) just don’t have. And the letter counting thing is a funny example of that inaccuracy